English - Director | August 15, 1928 -
I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.
Nicolas Roeg
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But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
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Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
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I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.
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Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
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Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.
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They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
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I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
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There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
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Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
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